Publisher: Penguin (2018/1/4)

平装: 368 pages

Language: 英语

ISBN: 0141983760

EAN: 9780141983769

Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm

Item Weight: 272 g

睡眠是我们生命健康和长寿的重要方面之一，但它在二十一世纪的社会中越来越被忽视，带来诸多严重的后果：当今世界的许多的主要疾病 - 阿尔茨海默症，癌症，肥胖，糖尿病 - 都与睡眠不足有关。

从多年的研究发现中，科学家发现，大脑透过充足的睡眠能增进许多能力，例如学习、记忆和做出合理的决策，睡眠甚至能重新校准我们的情绪、改善免疫系统、调节新陈代谢和调节胃口。睡眠与而作梦能帮助我们化解痛苦的记忆，为过去和现在的知识创造虚拟空间，从而激发更多创造力。

以图解解析先进的科学发现，结合数十年的研究成果及临床经验，神经学家及睡眠专家Matthew Walker将为我们揭开睡眠的神秘面纱，重启你对睡眠的认知与重视。

Walker在书中解答了许多关于睡眠的问题，例如：

为何睡眠模式会改变？

咖啡因和酒精如何影响睡眠？

快速眼动睡眠期，身体究竟有什么变化？

常见的辅助睡眠产品是否真能改善睡眠品质，长期使用是否会造成伤害？

Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.

In this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves into everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our existence.

Matthew Walker's fascination with sleep has taken him from Nottingham to Harvard and on to the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and Director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory. He has published over 100 scientific research studies during the course of his twenty-year career. Why We Sleep is his first book.